Two passages that struck me were:<\/p>\n
The first passage occurs when Sir Henry is seeing his new estate for the first time. He stared at the walls admirably but darkness hung over him. I interpreted this as the curse of his family was hanging over him. Almost as if he was doomed because his ancestors were doomed. The word \u201clong\u201d indicates many eras of tragedy in his family. The image I get is the headshots of the past heirs being covered with darkness to indict their ill fates. The simile saying the shadow \u201chung like a black canopy above him,\u201d indicates that he hasn\u2019t been succumbing to darkness yet, but it\u2019s coming! It feels like the darkness is waiting above Sir Henry waiting for the right moment for the Hound of Baskerville to pounce. After reading the second passage, I changed my opinion. Sir Henry makes the claim that the problem is with him and not the house. This is important because maybe the \u201ccurse\u201d that is haunting his family isn\u2019t actually a curse at all. It seems to me that it might be the Baskerville men causing their own fate. Their own actions are causing them to die. I see the self-fulfilling prophecy in this novel. The family thinks they are cursed, so they unconsciously make bad things happen to themselves. Holmes doesn\u2019t usually believe in supernatural events and it is noted that he is rarely wrong. Therefore I think Sir Henry\u2019s statement above is foreshadowing that the Baskerville Curse does not exist. The servants said the Sir Charles was so stressed and focused on the fear of dying that his weak heart could have caused his death. If I were a detective on the case, I would be inclined to argue that Sir Charles had a heart attack and died because he was afraid of the darkness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two passages that struck me were: \u201cThe light beat upon him where he stood, but long shadows trailed down the walls and hung like a black canopy above him (Chapter 6 pg 110). \u201cI guess it is ourselves and not the house that we have to blame!” said the baronet (Chapter 7 pg 115). The … Continue reading Baskerville bloodline causes their own blood loss<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2026,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123782],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2026"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}